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My daughter often plays in the room as I "do my cards"...her usual request is " Can I hold your cards for you?" meaning the ones I have already dealt out, and written down....she loves to just hold them and look at them, even the Thoth. She has a strong sense of what scares her, and no single image in that deck bothers her at all. Snakes and frogs and lizards, in real life, bother her to no end, but the images on the cards (or anywhere else) do not upset, nor disturb her. She particulary loves the ladies on the Thoth, like the Empress, in all of her pink softness. She thinks the Empress is beautiful. My daughter is 5 yrs old.
As a person with a fear of snakes, I am aware that my fears may be passed on to my children, and so I do all that I can to get over it, to embrace the thing which I fear. I sculpt snakes a lot, the uroborus is a favorite of mine, and there is a very small one in my daughter's bedroom. My kids see snake images in their home all of the time.
So, anyhoo, while I agree about the Book Of Thoth not being suitable for children, the Crowley/Harris deck is imo, a beautiful thing to give to a person at any age. And the educational aspects of it would be quite broadening.
Oh, and btw, I think forteanajones is a dad.
As a person with a fear of snakes, I am aware that my fears may be passed on to my children, and so I do all that I can to get over it, to embrace the thing which I fear. I sculpt snakes a lot, the uroborus is a favorite of mine, and there is a very small one in my daughter's bedroom. My kids see snake images in their home all of the time.
So, anyhoo, while I agree about the Book Of Thoth not being suitable for children, the Crowley/Harris deck is imo, a beautiful thing to give to a person at any age. And the educational aspects of it would be quite broadening.
Oh, and btw, I think forteanajones is a dad.